The seminar is a multimodular project of the Croatian Police Directorate and the International Organisation for Migrations (IOM) mission in Croatia.
The project provides training for 26 police officers over a period of 16 months in curbing human trafficking, Sandra Veber of the Crime Investigation Department told reporters on Thursday.
The seminar is being attended by the coordinator of the Council of Europe's CARDS regional project, Bjorn Tlarberg, who said that Croatia was one of the transition countries used as a route for human trafficking.
Seventeen cases of human trafficking have been registered in Croatia this year, twice as many as in the past two years. Veber explained that this did not mean that human trafficking had increased, but that police had become more efficient in discovering such cases.
Veber also said that victims of human trafficking were most often young people aged between 18 and 22, particularly women.
The seminar was organised by the Croatian Interior Ministry, the IOM Mission, the Office of the Chief Public Prosecutor, and the Justice Ministry. It ends on Saturday.